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Chicago, IL, US

• Solve business problems
• Lead and mentor teams
• Plan, manage and control projects
• Deliver solutions

Bolingbrook, IL, US

• Provided oversight in project initiating, planning, and identification of dependencies, risks, and issues
• Managed and tracked overall portfolio budget and the individual budgets of all projects within the portfolio, providing accurate trends and forecasts
• Supervised and mentored project managers on SDLC and project management methodology
• Collaborated with IT leaders to communicate portfolio status to business partners

Houston, Texas, US

• Supervised development of the business-critical, integrated earned-value management system; added time phasing, trend/forecast analysis, and other requirements for newly acquired nuclear power group.
• Directed 5 teams in the design, development, delivery, and support of key business applications and interfaces.
• Integrated post-acquisition development teams, including the sharing of ideas, knowledge, tools, and operating under common best practices.

Houston, Texas, US

• Collaborated with business partners to strategically plan and align IT initiatives with business objectives
• Recommended cross-functional integration initiative to ensure data integrity and visibility needed for construction work planning, which led to job site productivity improvements
• Led solution design and updates to all systems and interfaces dependent on the JDE upgrade to E1
• Directed and held accountable project teams of users, vendors, developers, analysts, and IT operations
• Managed expanded global staff of architects, developers, business analysts, and support analysts
• Contributed as member of the Senior IT Management Team in planning, development and review of IT strategy, governance, budget, service level agreements (SLAs), and project portfolio

Houston, Texas, US

• Led both local and virtual teams in the analysis, design, development, delivery, and maintenance of business systems, JDE and custom interfaces
• Coached and developed staff as well as consistently cross-trained personnel to maximize productivity, support coverage, and resource utilization
• Reinforced application delivery methodology by modernizing and reissuing corporate IT policy and procedures on software development, change management, and service requests
• Initiated the development and implementation of an integrated management system for IT service requests and approvals, which resulted in IT passing its first and subsequent SOX audits
• Achieved targeted post-acquisition synergies for 4 acquisitions through successful alignment of business processes and implementation of selected IT systems

Houston, Texas, US

• Promoted to expand portfolio coverage to include Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales.
• Stabilized the custom modifications to JD Edwards that supported CB&I’s engineered-to-order supply chain management requirements, thus eliminated the reliance of the high-cost JDE consultant.
• Automated and streamlined the cross-functional process and information flow from engineering to manufacturing and procurement, which initiated the project demand-driven distribution process in JDE.

Houston, Texas, US

• Designed and developed a rule-based engineering data retrieval application that interacts with an in-house intelligent computer-aided design (CAD) system.
• Provided SQL data retrieval and database development support to the engineering CAD programming team.